Eye witness testimony - created from Mind Map

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anxiety

age

misleading info

cognitive interview

yuille and cutshall found that level of proximity to a real life shooting increased accuracy of recall

loftus

yerkes and dodson law

christianson and hubinette

weapon focus effect - two conditions, low anxiety - low key discussion, man emerges with greased pen. high anxiety - pts over hear heated discussion, hear breaking glass and see man emerge with bloodied ppaperknife. High anxiety - less accurate (33%). Low anixety - 49% accurate when recalling the face of the emerging man.

medium anxiety leads to higher accuracy

110 witnesses to 22 real bank robberies, found that those who had been threatened in some way provided more detail and more accurate recall.

geiselman and padilla - 7 - 12 year olds, found that children were far less accurate when reporting a filmed bank robbery.

kent and yuille, asked children to identify a person they had seen earlier from a set of photographs, 9 year olds would select incorrectly when the real person wasnt even an option, however 5 year old would select correctly when the person was an option, siggesting children are embarrassed to be wrong, or make a mistake, not actually their memory being worse.

leichtman and ceci

loftus and palmer - showed pts a series of road traffic accidents then asked the question, 'how fast was the car when it 'VERB' into the other car?' the verbs was replaced each time. the 'smashed' group estimated considerably high speed than the contacted group. In a follow up, the researched asked if the pts saw any smashed glass, the smashed group were more likely to answer yes.

yuille and cutshall

blatantly incorrect info

witnessses of a real life shooting - 13 people interviewed 4-5 months later. 85% were accurate when asked two misleading questions and made little - no mistakes.

loftus - theft involving red purse, 98% correctly rememebered immediate recall, when asked about a brown purse, all but 2 were correct.

context reinstatement, recall in diff order, recall in diff perspective, recall everything

time consuming, training needed, costly